On December 4, Ambassador Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka accompanied by Madame Sanja Jayatilleka attended a meeting at Trialogue Club International, a meeting place of the Russian and foreign diplomats, politicians and experts for discussions on foreign and security policy. It was the last event of the Club for this year. The Club will celebrate its 25th anniversary next year.

Ambassador Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka paid the first courtesy call of the thematic series dedicated to Latin American states representing growing and stabilizing economies crystallizing from the volcanic eruptions of popular movements of the mid- and late XX century.

On November 21, the Transmashholding company hosted a group meeting in the framework of the Russian Foreign Ministry State Protocol Department's initiative to introduce diplomatic corps to the Russian Ministries, Agencies and State corporations. The meeting was attended by Ambassadors and other high-ranking diplomats of the foreign Missions in Moscow.

ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ අභිනවයෙන් ආරක්ෂක රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍යධුරයට පත්, ගරු ලක්ෂ්මන් සෙනෙවිරත්න මැතිතුමා වෙත රුසියානු සමුහාණ්ඩුවේ ආරක්ෂක අමාත්‍ය ගරු ශර්ගෙයි ශොයිගු මැතිතුමා විසින් නිල සුභ පැතුම් පණිවුඩයක් යොමු කොට ඇත. එමෙන්ම රුසියානු ආරක්ෂක නියෝජ්‍ය අමාත්‍ය ගරු කර්නල් ජෙනරාල් ඇලෙක්සැන්ඩර් ෆෝමින් විසින් ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ නව ආරක්ෂක ලේකම් තනතුරට පත් හේමසිරි ප්‍රනාන්දු මහතා වෙත ද සුභාශිංසන යොමු කර ඇත.

Hon. Sergei Shoigu, the Minister of Defence of the Russian Federation sent a congratulatory letter to Hon. Lakshman Senewiratne on the latter's appointment as the State Minister of Defence of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka. A similar note was forwarded by Hon. Col. Gen. A. Fomin, Deputy Minister of Defence of Russia to Mr. Hemasiri Fernando, Sri Lankan Secretary of Defence.

The Embassy of Sri Lanka in Russia was informed by the relevant Russian authorities of the planned expansion of the regular flight program between the Russian capital and Colombo.